The campaigns against the schechita, the Jewish method of slaughtering animals for food, is being continued by the “Wiener Tageszeitung,” anti-Semitic daily.
In an article devoted to the question, the newspaper asserts that the Jewish people are misleading the world by claiming that their schechita is a religious duty imposed by the Old Testament. Under this claim they hide “a practice which is cruel and sadistic.” The “Tageszeitung” quotes the opinion which it claims to have obtained from a Rabbi L. Stein of Frankfort, that the schechita is not a biblical command but rests merely on tradition. The Mosaic law does not indicate anywhere that incision in the throat of an animal is compulsory or that the flesh of animals otherwise killed is forbidden.
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